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That is exactly correct and each person who drops their principles (or exposes their lack of) to defend and excuse the "corporation" continues to legitimize the wrong response. Who has the power here? The people and their wallets do. If each individual simply voiced their objection rather than excuse it this paradigm would change quickly. The media represents the media, not the people, and controversy is their honey. People have acquiesced to the media for far too long and this is what we have. All it takes is people pulling up their big boy pants and not accepting the narratives.

Gamble? What about sacrificing an innocent person? Money being the prime motivator to hang the innocent is depraved at best.

Now he knows he can do it. Watch out NHL!

No. And no. The Bills are in the ideal position to reject and fight this type of behavior/mania. The larger, more high-profile the entity fighting behavior by media and pundits that everyone knows to be wrong the larger the blow to that behavior/mania. Capitulating to it only gives it power. The Bills would have easily survived standing by their player despite the caterwauling of those who are demonstrably insignificant to anything. For those concerned about image, ponder how awesome they'd look today if they had waited until all of the facts were established in the matter. AFAIC, when we excuse that kind of base, cowardly behavior shown by the Bills we promote the entire ugly situation and do nothing to eradicate it, which, instead should be rejected and fought against.

This is why any organization should have the stones to stand down until all evidence of a claim is investigated instead of withering before obviously ignorant punditry. This is weak sauce on the part of the Bills and, frankly, I hope they suffer some comeuppance over this.

Yeah, you wave those hands, Oilers fans, it's still 4-1. And, oh! Here's the goal back.

That sucks. In case anyone else needs clarification, here is an explanation: https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/37555787/how-nhl-draft-lottery-works-2023-connor-bedard-chances-odds It seems, then, the best we can do is pick 3.

Boo. Such a pessimist. The allocation of odds for the 1st Lottery Draw of the 2023 NHL Draft Lottery is as follows: Draft Lottery Participants (Fewest Points to Most), with Odds: Anaheim Ducks -- 18.5% Columbus Blue Jackets -- 13.5% Chicago Blackhawks -- 11.5% San Jose Sharks -- 9.5% Montreal Canadiens -- 8.5% Arizona Coyotes -- 7.5% Philadelphia Flyers -- 6.5% Washington Capitals -- 6.0% Detroit Red Wings -- 5.0% St. Louis Blues -- 3.5% Vancouver Canucks -- 3.0% Ottawa Senators* -- 2.5% Buffalo Sabres -- 2.0% Pittsburgh Penguins -- 1.5%

The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded to the player selected as the most proficient in his first year of competition in the NHL. Last Sabre to win it was Tyler Myers. If Myers can win it, Power definitely can.

Toronto has been using the Rangers' model. It's kind of obvious at this point that there's more to building a team than just assembling "proven talent". Take the recent expansion teams, Vegas and now Seattle doing well with rosters full of "the unwanted" - which is precisely what is/was crucial to their initial success because they're motivated to issue a huge middle finger to the rest of the league that discarded them. The conclusion here is that the players need something other than money as a motivator. How do you achieve that when you're not an expansion team and your coach isn't Winston Churchill? One way is that you allow the locker room develop in such a way that it is self-motivating. That is far easier to do with league-neophytes who haven't been a part of the machine long enough that they're cynical. Just a thought that needs a lot more fleshing out.

Good game, although I think the lower position of the main camera in the Panther's arena softens the perception of the energy on the ice. I get the sense it was a more intense game than it looked. The Leafs are slowly being ground up and they should be thankful they have two days between games. Bobrovski is simply a machine. Samson has become the player we all wanted him to be - a playoff difference-maker.

Carolina is playing like a grizzled veteran team that knows how to impose its collective will on the opposition. It's obvious NJ's collective psyche has never encountered such an intense alpha entity.

Love Lundqvist's suit. Great look.

NJ is in over their heads.

Skinner - Thompson - Tuch Quinn - Cozens - Peterka Mittelstadt - Krebs - Savoie Greenway - Jost - Sprong (SEA) Rousek Kulich (becomes a regular call-up) Samuelsson - Dahlin Power - Bouchard (EDM) Graves (NJD) - Lyubushkin Stillman, Bryson Comrie Levi

This is another manifestation of the "trade up for Bedard" discussion only with a different context and subject.

I haven't listened to the interview yet, so please feel free to let me know if KA addressed the following opinion: The goalie situation will be guided by what KA and crew think led to the high goals against - were it due primarily to bad goaltending or poor defense? Obviously, it's a combination of the two, so let's consider them as a ratio. I have the impression that for KA, the ratio biases significantly toward bad defense. I'm not saying he's right, just sharing my impression of his judgement based on his comments. Supposing that's accurate then I expect him to respond by adding, as @Taro T suggests, a top 4 D. He has goalies already that, after last season (especially), he likely can't move for a reasonable return but also publickly maintains that he believes in them - ignore Levi, this theme applies to UPL and Comrie. There are lots of ways to game this out from here. I prefer the thread where he trades one of them for a vet goalie with a solid record but I don't have confidence Varlamov will leave the Islanders (see attached article). Personally, while a top 4 D man is essential regardless of the aforementioned goals-against-causation-ratio, I'm not sure it's so heavily skewed toward defense as KA seems to think it is. https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/new-york-islanders/features/semyon-varlamov-new-york-islanders-ilya-sorokin-contract

Exactly what I was thinking at the time - last two, goalie pulled - whoa! An unfortunate "mistake" by Florida gives Toronto a PP! Not so tonight. Very gratifying.

Goodness, here we go again.

Is there a deadline?

OWN IT!

NJ is really flat.

Toronto barely showed up for that game. I don't see either of NJ or the Canes giving in so easily. The conference finals will be a brawl if this is how this series is going to go.